“If she’s with her husband, the actor Banky Wellington, forget it—a trip to the grocery store launches a thousand selfies.

“But unlike some of her cohorts on the shoot, she’s more of a third-culture kid, born in Nigeria and raised mainly in England.

“She went to school in Coventry, studied drama at the University of Wolverhampton, and then got a nine-to-five job with the fashion arm of a large supermarket chain. It was then that, as she puts it, “I can’t explain it—I felt I had to go back to Nigeria.”

“In fact, she points out, of the four films that have done best for the relatively young industry, she is in three.